Answer what? I bet he has gone dumb like Obasanjo too

@Laggchk: Fela don talk am' dapolam, oro pesi je oh, oro di uh!

Whats the guarantee that toksajayi and dapolam are not one and the same id?the possibility is very slim cuz the former acts like a Jekyll jerk & Hyde hiding the true personalities of dapolam.Is either the poster is a congenital sycophant or just high on the lame-ass unprogressive politics they play in Ibadan.
You see now, even fools are comparing themselves to Obama when they are actually wearing the same shoe that got Bush voted out of office.Nonsense!

@Cutie: keep praying and keep faith but remember that faith without work is "kaput" dead faith. The fact still remains that she is a square peg in a round hole and what Nigeria needs now is not "re-branding" but overhaul and adopt a system where energy and development is sustainable.Unfortunately,the people that appointed her are the real sabotuers,so she is staring system-induced failure in face.

Shut up jare! Name at stake? Is the name not already tied to the stake?
our campaign? Me, I can't laugh oh!
Ibad oh sorry, Amala politicians!
You are really molded in the cast of your political forebears, now its decorum and decency thats the issue not the pertinent questions? Yeye people!

Ibadan politics!

Bloody serpent!!!

Mind you, the Adeshina haven't blocked anyone from coming out to contest.
It's a matter of sampling one's opinion.

The basic Nigeria problem; diverting focus from salient point by providing irrelevant answers. I have not said the Adeshina's are preventing others but they should also know they are not the only one in Ibadan. House of Rep ke? Maybe people are fed up with all these familiar names that feast on us and play on the Awoist sentiments.
He should go and face something else and make a mark for himself aside politics. Like I said, politics is not a family business!!!

My friend, if you like use 2 million IDs to post your questions, the answer is obvious so DapoLam will either answer them within his perspectives or not answer at all.
This guy should go and face something else, enough of Adesina's for now after all their generation has not performed any miracle; politics, I repeat is not a family business. Let other people do it too

Yeah right.

Shikena! Big Mess uP.

and I have seen enough Nigerian moon light tales become living daylightmares!

He won't reply or answer your questions either.

Is it that I had an extra?
Or I graduated with a pass?
Or they had to beg for me to graduate?
Abi i no even graduate at all?
Or I didnt graduate with my mates?

I know numbskulls that have or did not have any of these problems and they are able to graduate and become something relevant in their chosen career.
The question is, why don't you stick with your Engineering skills and contribute to Nigeria's growth rather than think politics and public office is a family business. Let other people whose father has not messed up before do it too. Its the same Nigerian recycling problem.

@ Nnenna1: See, the issue is simple.
You can only brand what you have.
Even, if you pave the roads of Nigeria with Gold; bring in CNN,BBC and SKyNews to cover it, when they arrive and ask questions, they will know the realities and thats the sham I am referring to.
We cannot continue with our window dressing in this country, what we need to do is change the realities and the realities will launder itself.

I am not inferring that she will do a sham but I am sure that the system is a sham and things cannot be different until the realities are different.
Don't brand a bad road, no power and sick Nigeria. Thats utter folly.
Read my posts too.

And because she has been competent before does not mean we should swallow the age-old sham.

@Nnenna1: Still, I could see you are getting the point and denying the reality.
A perception of branding within a system like Nigeria's where the realities speak otherwise is a sham and propaganda and the worst case scenario is that the Nigerians within will be the ones to call those in the diaspora and explain the truth to them.
Reality Check: Dora Akunyili has always been a woman a lot of people looked up to and she has done a lot in her field to correct some ills, but as minister of information; heck no, she is just being setup as a mouthpiece and no matter what she does, it will go down the rot of the system as others before her.
Information in Nigeria is an undeniable thing. We see it, feel it and can't just understand the denial.
In a long time, an average Nigeria does not even trust any pronouncement made by the ministry because its the voice of the powers that be which are unfortunately, corrupt, unrepentant and immune to change.
Before you they start singing another song for Nigeria through branding, let them re-write the lyrics by providing power, good roads, employment enhancing and favorable business environment for those within before inviting outsiders. Nigerians are no fools.

Naija!!!

;DOjo Maduekwe!!!

MR. MADUEKWE: Okay, very instructive, useful questions, and I want to thank you all for that – for the interest shown. On the first one, I liked the way it was framed – cooperation and competition – and some countries were mentioned, but in the context of that relationship, what are additional avenues for cooperation? Now, let me tell you, the issue of oil – again, speaking maybe tongue-in-cheek, but I mean it – oil has not really been a blessing to Nigeria, and I think I’m saying the obvious. None of our great universities were built with the oil revenue – Ibadan, Sukah (ph), ABU, all those great institutions – they were built with money from non-oil exports like cocoa, groundnut, palm oil and so on and so forth.
We fought the civil war without revenue from oil. But unfortunately for us, nearly the war was over, we ran into oil. Because if we didn’t run into oil when the war ended, the creativity that went into prosecuting that war and handling it without borrowing money from

Thats why we are not developing our Agriculture and Fairtrade now? And which money are they using to sustain (or destroy) the GREAT universities now?

yeah right!
Lock CNN out of Nigeria and shutdown the national internet access grid

These are the news that define our brand.
https://www.nairaland.com/nigeria/topic-231241.0.html
and we do make a lot of news

We know. But have you heard the lamentations of these MTN and co. too?
What about companies that do not have the financial capacity and clout like those you mentioned. The issue is, our problem has always been and branding can not solve it for us at this time, its "just make things work and right" not paint us good cuz no matter how hard you try to hide a smoke, it will come out.

Yeah! Tourism is a potential but I cannot even think of traveling to some locations in Nigeria if I have to travel on the Benin-Ore road. I am sure a lot of people read and heard about it beyond the shores of Nigeria when Allison-Madueke cried about the deplorable situation of the road and yet she has left to another Ministry without changing the road to an Autobahn. So much for tourism, so much for image.
We kinda tell our story wrongly because in most cases its a WRONG story and thats why branding is not a panacea.

and there it is. gnat of AfricA.

the more production will take place, and the more infrastructures, jobs, and the good things that follow will occur, making for a less shitty nation. Simple logic.

Yeah. I wish the logic is that simple. NEPA or is it PHCN now, will complicate the simple logic and thats why Unilever moved production to Ghana and noise pollution has come to stay.

Anenih! What about Rilwan Lukman, coming back 23 years after leaving an office? Is that not an error of purpose in leadership?
I wonder if the old guy is the only crude oil specialist in Nigeria. Thats one of the defects for the branding project; too many old faces.

Gbam! Did I hear that?
The Nigeria will only develop when the fundamental problems have been solved and the problems can never be solved until those who can provide the solutions are benefiting from chaos and those not benefiting are only crying foul so that they can get their share of the benefit. Welcome to Nigeria!

Its basically a misplacement of priorities. Or is it a dance to the gallery?
I am yet to see anything new or progressive that the Ministry has done to impact the lives of Nigerians that has not been undermined by the powers that be or the personality of the ministers themselves; the branding will be realistic when the people in charge will not rubbish the simple efforts of other average Nigerians trying to showcase Nigeria in a better light by their corruption today, do-or-die affair tomorrow and useless probes and so on.

@ Kobojunkie: Read today's The  Sunday Punch newspaper. 8th February, 2009. Page 7.

Exactly my point. If Nigeria will just be realistic and not glorify mediocrity by putting square pegs in round holes,maybe,just maybe we will get it right and not make a fool of ourselves to rest of the world.
In the 90's Babangida ridicule the intelligence and goodwill of smart Nigerians by creating a system that will destroy their sane efforts; Tai Solarin/Peoples Bank, Wole Soyinka/FRSC and Nwosu of NEC. The practice continues with Bola Ige/Power Minister under Obasanjo which happens to be his albatross and the greatest scam of all ministry after national ID CARD.Naija,just get it right.

@ I_Laugh: My signature is my personal opinion and personal business, not yours, so focus on the re-branding issue or shut your trap.
So,you are the egg head staying close by and solving Nigeria problem, right?
And I don't know about blockheads staying faraway, but part of the basic problem of Nigeria are people like you that start statements with insults and ends with nothing than your contributions as irresponsible followers to the kind of leaders you deserve.
My post begs the question of how a Pharmacist will brand Nigeria when the legislators that approved her appointment are openly condoning looting of the nation dry? Come up with a solution for that in your next laughter session!

What the heck? Dapo Lam that struggled to graduate from the University of Ibadan wants to wrestle power from scavengers? Yeah right, another BUSH in the making!